Sunday, 28 February 2016

I don't think anyone can argue that as far as picket fences go, this one is a beauty.

There are mixed reactions about its location though. It very tidily prevents diners at the coffee shop from straying onto the road, but at the same time it is a little disruptive to pedestrians! No more, it must be said, than the not so beautiful plastic blinds that surround it's neighbours, and I know which of the two I'd rather see.

Saturday, 20 February 2016

There is so much going on in this photograph that a full explanation is difficult. For instance, what do all those arrows mean?

On the other hand the blue sign, admittedly a little faded, declares Caloundra to be Australia's tidiest town in 2013, no doubt left a little untidier by residual banners declaring it to be so. This begs a question though: How could this be?

Caloundra ceased to be a town when the Sunshine Coast Council was formed in 2008! Some of us are clearly having problems integrating!

Thursday, 11 February 2016

We had friends from the Phillipines with us for a few days. The humidity and temperature wasn't a bother for them, but it would have been nice to have had more than a few metres of visibility when we drove up into the hinterland.

Sunday, 7 February 2016

Saturday, 6 February 2016

Note the bowing of the shop blinds, the general blur of the leaves in the foreground, and the strange blurring of the "New Tornado" sign.

This is the moment the storm made it's presence felt. In 1/80 of a second (which coincidentally was the time it took to take this photo) that sign is going to narrowly miss me. The leaves are going to disappear, and an inch or so of water will fall in minutes!

Thursday, 4 February 2016

The evening grey will soon give way to a cloudburst, but we weren't to know that. Actually we'd have to be stupid not to know that, but I'm trying to find an excuse for walking in the face of an oncoming storm.

How does "Well the temperature was thirty-nine degrees and it was more than a little muggy" sound?

Tuesday, 2 February 2016

The "dog's eye", rhyming slang for meat pie is as much a part of traditional Australian culture as the kangaroo. In the not so distant past they were by far the largest selling food item in the country. They are often drowned in "dead horse" (tomato sauce) although strangely it's called ketchup just about anywhere else in the world, but this one is covered in "mash" - mashed potato.

Monday, 1 February 2016

Back in Lamkin Lane at the Espresso Bar, the contents of that frosty bottle are the perfect pick-me-up on a hot day. Cold-pressed coffee lovingly dripped as nature intended, using only gravity and entirely without heat, through a series of glass contraptions no doubt stolen from one of Jule's Verne's daydreams before being mixed with fresh full-cream milk (from actual cows) then sealed with a proper bottle cap and lovingly refrigerated.

Sipped straight from the bottle, if you are in the northern hemisphere and nestled under your snow blanket, it's probably hard to imagine right now, but take my word from it, it's PERFECT on a summer's afternoon!

Lamkin Lane Espresso Bar
Caloundra

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The Queensland Sunshine Coast Shires of Noosa and Maroochy merged with Caloundra City on March 15th 2008, and on that day this blog began. A few years later, Noosa left the rest of us to our own devices, but the blog lived on.

One could wax lyrically or even cynically about the beauty and amenity and emerging economics of "The Sunny Coast", but why not let the pictures do the talking?

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